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Humanitarian sciences in Siberia

2013 year, number

SOME SOCIOCULTURAL FACTORS OF DEVELOPMENT OF HAGIOGRAPHY IN THE MODERN AGE (BY THE EXAMPLE OF ST. INNOCENT OF IRKUTSK)

N.K. Chernyshova
Keywords: hagiography, life story, historical essay, «Spiritual Regulation», St. Innocent of Irkutsk, St. Dimitriy of Rostov, textual analysis, manuscript, biography, version, copy

Abstract

The article reveals factors of creation and existence of hagiography monuments of the Modern Age: specifics of canonization of saints in the Modern Age; the impact of Peter the Great’s «Spiritual Regulation» as a document that determined the contents of hagiographic literature; the role of historical science in transformation of hagiographic literature; specifics of studying hagiographical monuments of the Modern Age.